That took two years and in September he presented a 350-page document to FIFA, but after a summary - with some sections removed for legal reasons - was made public the American criticised it for "containing numerous materially incomplete and erroneous representations".

Simon Johnson, who led England's 2018 bid team, described the claims as "farcical".

“It's now pretty ugly for FIFA if the person who did the inquiry says the judge hasn't properly reflected his inquiry”

Greg Dyke

"Before that statement by Mr Garcia, Eckert's report looked like a politically-motivated whitewash," he said.

"Now that I have seen Mr Garcia's statement, I am absolutely convinced that the report is a political-motivated whitewash."

Garcia's statement was an further embarrassment for FIFA and has raised serious concerns about the work of German judge Eckert.

Amazingly, the FA came out worst in yesterday's report, being attacked for their wooing of disgraced former FIFA vice-president Jack Warner during England's bid for the 2018 World Cup.

The report alleged the England 2018 team "violated bidding rules", including helping to secure a job in the UK for a family friend of the controversial football figure.

BIG BACKING: David Beckham and Wayne Rooney backed the FA's bid [PA]

Dyke admits England will never bid for another World Cup while he remains in charge of the FA.

He added: "Those who co-operated the most seemed to be the ones that gave them the information by which they were then criticised, like the FA.

"Others, who didn't co-operate, didn't get criticised at all. Well, there's a surprise.

"As for the criticism of the English bid, obviously I wasn't involved, but it's all based on information that we gave to them and that the FA had cleared with the FIFA executives in advance. Questions still need to be answered.

"The one that was the highest risk was Qatar and they won, and it doesn't take us any further forward on why they won.

"I still don't understand why the 2022 World Cup was given to Qatar when it was quite clear from FIFA's own technical committee that said it would be high risk.

FIFA yesterday refused to answer a series of questions on the report put to them by the Daily Star.